Many applications written in AWT are performing very well. So if you don't have to upgrade, then don't sweat it.
If you do have to: I recommend going with SWING if you can afford an IDE like JBuilder. It will provide a graphical building tool like Visual C++ does. The days of writing your own GUI construction code is ending, but you will have to take a hit and learn the layouts swing provides. I would also recommend the book 'Core JFC Java Foundation Classes' by Kim Topley. If your going for a cheap/free solution, try SWT and eclipse. IBM is putting alot of effort in it, so it shouldn't go away and you can use the eclipse framework to get you started. We had an eclipse speaker a few months back and he recommended creating eclipse plug-ins as a method of reating an entire application on top of a bare eclipse environment. - Greg Jones ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Richard O. Hammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Research Triangle Java User's Group mailing list."<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:58:11 -0400 >Has someone made a GUI recently using the widgets available in >java.awt? Would you recommend it? > >Three or four years ago the word was "use Swing, AWT is buggy". But >in my experience Swing never turned out to be fully charming. I >wonder if AWT might have been debugged. > >Rich Hammer > > >_______________________________________________ >Juglist mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org > _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
